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Douglas River is a rural locality in the local government areas of Break O'Day and Glamorgan–Spring Bay in Tasmania. The locality is about 40 miles south of the town of St Helens. It was originally a coal mining area.

Douglas River was gazetted as a locality in 1968. The name was in use by 1902. It is possibly derived from an 1830s Survey Department draughtsman named Henry Douglas.

The waters of the Tasman Sea form the eastern boundary. Douglas River (the watercourse) flows through from west to east, where it empties into Maclean Bay, an inlet of the Tasman Sea.

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